Ana Ivanovic Quotes

I use music as therapy. Whenever I'm feeling angry or needing some 'me' time, which is quite regularly, I'll go and bang a piano or flesh out something on a guitar.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.

I personally think that's incredibly therapeutic to just be alone in your own thoughts and not be freaking out.

Music stops you from thinking.

I'm a person who takes baths in the dark, alone.

All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.

I truly believe that listening to music can transform you into a better person.

Running is something you can do and be alone in your thoughts, and I like that. Maybe I've been a runner my whole life.

I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.

If the pressure is getting to you, whistle. In a barely audible way. It's the best way I know of to let go of tension. Music gets your mind off the situation, and the act of whistling melts the tension out of your body.

I believe that music in itself heals and that everything is about the power of the mind. I thought if you are happy, you don't get ill. Your health is in your head. When you are satisfied with your work, you don't get ill.

Music has always been such an amazing tool for me to access self and emotion.

If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.

Everyone goes through the ups and downs of living - fretting about the future, worrying about what happened. Music teaches us how to be in the moment.

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.

I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.

Music is such a healing thing, no matter who you are.

My ideology was, if I just make very happy music, very happy music, then people will forget about whatever their problems are. I will forget about my problems.

Abjure all accretions and turn off the lights. Put on some music - Leonard Cohen, say, perhaps his 'Various Positions' - and let your mind cool down. Soon you'll forget there's a word called 'stress.'

I write music, really, to make myself feel better.